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Cuomo also said that Trump "seemed very open" about the need for states to receive federal funding as they work toward reopening their economies.

The virus can take anywhere from two weeks to eight weeks from the first onset of symptoms before a patient is sick enough to die.

Global health officials question if antibody testing can accurately determine whether a person has any immunity to the disease.

The state now has 1,000 people working online and through its phone system to process the high volume of unemployment claims, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 88,800 people in the state as of Tuesday.

He said the stockpile will be filled with locally produced face shields, surgical gowns, test kits and ventilators and the city will also buy equipment from elsewhere as needed.

Georgia's move came amid a wave of announcements mostly by Republican governors about how states will reopen their economies.

A plunge in fuel prices will only hurt demand for new planes, analysts say.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 253,300 people across the state as of Tuesday.

The Korean won weakened on Tuesday against the dollar on unconfirmed reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seriously ill.

In the afternoon of Asian trading hours on Tuesday, the price of the May WTI contract shed earlier gains to fall back into negative territory.

Spain's daily death toll has risen slightly from Monday; meanwhile, Singapore's partial lockdown, known as the "circuit breaker," has been extended to June 1.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Tuesday that partial lockdown measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the country will be extended by four weeks to June 1.

Covid-19 has infected more than 2.4 million people around the world, killing at least 168,500 as of Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Seoul and Washington are currently negotiating a mechanism specifying how both countries share the costs of stationing some 28,500 American troops in South Korea as a deterrent to Pyongyang.

Generally, many emerging markets don't have the capacity to effectively contain the outbreak while limiting the economic hit on businesses and households, said Robert Kahn, director of global strategy and global macro at Eurasia Group.

Job losses across Asia Pacific could surge as countries are forced into lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, S&P Global said in a report Monday.

The partnership with Starbucks marks Beyond Meat's entry into the Chinese market.

The suit is among the first collective legal actions taken by health workers over the handling of the coronavirus outbreak by hospital administrators and state government.

The World Health Organization's top official warned that countries seeking to politicize the Covid-19 pandemic are "playing with fire."